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• Rethinking the Social Structure of Ancient Eurasian Nomads -- ScienceDaily (24 March 2012)
  
  
• Pastoralists in drought-Stricken Kenya Receive Insurance Payouts for Massive Livestock Losses -- EurekAlert (21 October 2011)
  
  
• Improbable Research: Of Wolves and Men -- Guardian (25 July 2011)
  
  
• Is Pastoralism in Crisis? -- Guardian (31 March 2011)

• video: The Ascent of Man: "The Harvest of the Seasons" (02 of 13) -- Jacob Bronowski [Bakhtiari, Central Iran; origin of agriculture; Neolithic; nomads] (52 min., 1974, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia VC 75)
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  • Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. BBC Books, 2011 [1974].
    
    
• Examples of pastoralist societies -- Wikipedia

  Traditional

  North & Northeast Africa

  • Afar of the Horn of Africa
  • Bedouin of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
  • Beja of North Africa and the Horn of Africa
  • Berbers of North Africa
  • Oromos of the Horn of Africa
  • Rendille of the Horn of Africa
  • Saho of the Horn of Africa
  • Somalis of the Horn of Africa
  • Tigre of the Horn of Africa
  • Tuareg of the north-central Sahara

  Sahel

  • Fula people of Sahelian West Africa
  • Toubou of Niger and Chad

  Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Karimojong of Uganda
  • Maasai of East Africa
  • Pokot of East Africa
  • Samburu of East Africa
  • Turkana of East Africa

  Near East

  • Kuchis of Afghanistan
  • Yörük of Turkey

  South Asia

  • Ahir found through out North India
  • Baghelmainly in UP and MP satate of india
  • Bakarwal found in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Bharwad in Gujarat
  • Bhutia in nort india and Nepal
  • Bodla found in Pakistani Punjab
  • Charan in Gujarat and Rajasthan
  • Chishti found in Pakistani Punjab
  • Dhangar found in Maharastra, MP
  • Gaddi of Himachal Pradesh
  • Maldhari of Gujarat
  • Muslim Gaddi
  • Gaderiain UP and MP
  • Gvala in Bangladesh
  • Ghosi
  • Gujjar found in North India, Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Kuruba found in South India
  • Kurma found in South India
  • Rabari of Gujarat, Rajasthan and panjab
  • Ranghar found in North India and Pakistan
  • Sherpa in Nepal
  • Wattu found in Pakistani Punjab
  • Raika found in Rajasthan

  Central Asia

  • Tuvans of Mongolia

  Southern Europe

  • Aromanians of Balkans
  • Sarakatsani of Greece

  Northern Europe

  • Komi of northern Russia
  • Sami of Scandinavia

  North America

  • Navajo of North America

"Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures"
"Aquatint by Samuel Daniell (1805)"
"The Khoikhoi practiced pastorlaism for thousands of years in southern Africa."
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Is Pastoralism in Crisis? -- Guardian (31 March 2011)